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Bariatric Surgery Worldwide

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The article was published on 2017-01-01. It has received 818 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sleeve gastrectomy.

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Post-Bariatric Body Contouring Surgery After Weight Loss: Lessons Learned From an Obesity Epidemic in the United States.

TL;DR: Time will tell whether China will choose to use similar tissue preservation techniques to address issues of soft tissue ptosis and volume deficiency seen after significant weight loss, make refinements of these techniques, or develop new uniquely Chinese solutions.
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Pyogenic liver abscess after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.

TL;DR: A thirty-seven-year-old female patient with unilocular pyogenic liver abscess two weeks after LSG is presented, with the abscess resolved by Ultrasound guided percutaneous drainage plus intravenous antibiotic treatment.
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Laparoscopic Transgastric Enucleation of a Gastric Leiomyoma near the Esophagogastric Junction and Concomitant Sleeve Gastrectomy: Video Report.

TL;DR: The first laparoscopic transgastric enucleation of a GL localized close to the EGJ performed concomitant with a sleeve gastrectomy is reported, appearing feasible, safe, and do not compromise the access to the GI tract as well as potential future curative treatments on the gastric sleeve.
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Gastric Fistula in the Chest After Sleeve Gastrectomy: a Systematic Review of Diagnostic and Treatment Options

TL;DR: This study aimed to establish the optimal diagnostic and treatment algorithm for the management of gastric fistula in the chest (GFIC) after sleeve gastrectomy (SG) through a systematic review of published cases.
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Views and Experiences of Adults who are Overweight and Obese on the Barriers and Facilitators to Weight Loss in Southeast Brazil: A Qualitative Study.

TL;DR: Experts patients should be utilized as an education method, as they increase motivation, promote the facilitators and provide realistic expectations of the weight loss process, to reduce the burden of obesity-related diseases on patients and healthcare services.
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Metabolic/Bariatric Surgery Worldwide 2011

TL;DR: The salient message of the 2011 assessment is that SG has markedly increased in prevalence, and the trends from the four IFSO regions differed, except for the universal increase in SG.
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Bariatric Surgery Worldwide 2013.

TL;DR: SG is currently the most frequently performed procedure in the USA/Canada and in the Asia/Pacific regions, and second to RYGB in the Europe and Latin/South America regions.
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Surgery for weight loss in adults

TL;DR: All seven RCTs comparing surgery with non-surgical interventions found benefits of surgery on measures of weight change at one to two years follow-up and Improvements for some aspects of health-related quality of life (QoL) and diabetes were also found; the overall quality of the evidence was moderate.
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The clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of bariatric (weight loss) surgery for obesity: a systematic review and economic evaluation

TL;DR: Bariatric surgery was a more effective intervention for weight loss than non-surgical options and there was higher remission of Type 2 diabetes than in non-Surgical groups.
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Metabolic/Bariatric Surgery Worldwide 2008

TL;DR: The absolute growth rate of bariatric surgery decreased over the past 5 years (135% increase), in comparison to the preceding 5 years (266% increase).
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